Word: salazarist
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These difficult truths were expressed in this week's elections to Portugal's new Assembly of the Republic, the first time in 51 years that the Portuguese had chosen their own lawmakers freely. Buttressed by the overt support of a Catholic Church which succored the old Salazarist regime, the right-wing Social Democratic Center Party (CDS) received about 16 per cent of the vote, while the more moderate rightist Popular Democrats garnered about 24 per cent. These parties stand, at best, for a freezing of revolution and opposition to the increased power of the landless peasants of the Allentejo...
...stressed labor discipline, stood against factory seizures and supported only modest wage increases for workers--all this as part of its overall strategy of gaining support from small landowners, shopkeepers and office employees in a united front against the monopoly capitalists and big landowners who ran Salazarist Portugal. More pro-Soviet than their Italian, Spanish or Yugoslav comrades, the Portugese Communists are also less sympathetic to revolutionary action...
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